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Ridge High Spring Orchestra Concert
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The Ridge High Music Department presents its spring orchestra concert on Tuesday, June 5 at the Ridge Performing Arts Center. The 7 pm concert will feature the school’s Symphony Chamber Orchestras lead by conductor Jennifer Curran. Admission is free, but donations are gladly accepted.
The Chamber Orchestra will perform two works: Antique Airs and Dances (movement 1 – Italiana) by the twentieth
century Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and the popular Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (movement IV Rondo) composed in 1787 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Symphony Orchestra will perform two works with featured soloists. Antonio Vivaldi’s eighteenth century composition Concerto in A Minor, op. 3, no. 8 will feature violin soloists Eileen Cho and Scott Altman. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21 in C
Major, K. 467 will feature piano soloist Amanda Li.
The combined Chamber and Symphony Orchestras will perform four nineteenth century works. Overture to the Barber of Seville, from Gioacchino Rossini’s popular opera, was composed in 1817. British composer Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations (movement IX – Nimrod) premiered in 1899 in London. The lively Thunder and Lightning Polka, op. 324 by Johann Strauss Jr. will feature student conductor Scott Altman.
The concert concludes with the frantic Bacchanale from the opera Samson and Dalila, op 47 composed by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens.
Thirty Three Ridge High seniors will be performing for the final time with the orchestras: Majd Abousleiman, Scott Altman, Ananya Badrish, Pat Burns, Ava Chen, Kristina Cheung, Eileen Cho, Rachel Conklin, Adam Connolly, Shireen Fathi, Charlene Haddad, Jaeyoung Han, Maggie Hanna, Alexandra Hershberger, Erin Ji, Sara Jones, Leo Lu, Ben Mason, Jake Massa, Keegan McCoy, Devin McGuire, Claire Olczak, Song Park, Brian Patchett, Max Rappaport, Lilian Ro, Michael Shaw, Emily Sisto, Megan Tsai, Howard Wei, Peter Woo, Justin Wu and Cynthia Zie.
Enjoy an evening of fine music with these Ridge ensembles!
Event Details
| Where | Ridge High School 268 S Finley Ave, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920 |
| Next on | This event is over. |
| Time | 7:00 pm–9:00 pm |
| Who to bring | Everyone, Families, Seniors |
| Price | $0 |
More About Ridge High School
Ridge High School was one of three New Jersey high schools designated as a Blue Ribbon School in 2009 by the U.S. Department of Education for excellence in academic achievement.
Ridge High has 1,639 students and maintains a 14.4 student-to-teacher ratio. Fifty percent of students graduate with at least one passing grade in an Advanced Placement class according to a Newsweek report on the top schools in the U.S. Newsweek ranked Ridge as the 177th best school in the nation and third in New Jersey.
Ridge also has a wide variety of after-school sports programs and extracurricular activities—from a competitive football program to one of the state's best high school debate teams.
Other events here
- KAPLAN PSAT CLASS Weekly on Wednesdays,
- Lentz & Lentz PSAT & SAT Prep at Ridge High School Weekly on Tuesdays, 6:30 pm–9:30 pm
